Vision Valley is the third studio album by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The Vines

The Vines

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. It was released on 1 April 2006 in Australia and on 3 April 2006 everywhere else except in the USA, where it was released on 4 April 2006. There are no contributions made to the record by bassist Patrick Matthews

Patrick Matthews

Patrick Matthews is the former bassist of Australian garage rock band The Vines and currently the bassist of Youth Group. Matthews founded The Vines with Craig Nicholls. The two met while working at McDonald's in Sydney. Matthews stayed with the band for two albums...

 due to his involvement with the band Youth Group

Youth Group

Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...

, and the band's video podcast

Podcast

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 proves this.

In the United States, the album debuting at #136 on the Billboard charts, selling 7,839 units. By week 2, the album completely slid off the Billboard 200. Both "Anysound" and "Spaceship" appeared in season 3 of The O.C.

The O.C.

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in episodes 21 and 24 respectively.

This album has been released with the Copy Control

Copy Control

Copy Control was the generic name of a copy prevention system, used from 2001 until 2006 on several digital audio disc releases by EMI Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in several regions...

 protection system in some regions.

Reception

The album received mixed reviews from many critics. However there were mostly positive reviews from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in particular, with music publications such as Q

Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...

and NME

NME

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giving the album 4/5 stars and 7/10 respectively. Q had Vision Valley at #69 in their Albums of 2006 Poll, dubbing the songs "superior grunge anthems".

Track listing

All songs by Craig Nicholls.

Limited Edition DVD

1. "Highly Evolved"
2. "Get Free"
3. "Outtathaway"
4. "Homesick"
5. "Ride"
6. "Winning Days"
7. "Gross Out"
8. "Studio Walkthrough with Wayne Connolly"

Personnel

• Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, bass on "Futuretarded"
• Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
• Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Andy Kent
  Andy Kent
  -Biography:Andy Kent joined You Am I in late 1991 at the age of twenty-two, replacing Nick Tischler, and joining Tim Rogers with new drummer Mark Tunaley . Kent was the band's live sound engineer prior to being asked to join the band at a performance in Canberra...
  
  (You Am I
  You Am I
  You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
  
  ) – bass
• Tim Kevin (La Huva) – special arrangements, piano, organ
• Nic Dalton
  Nic Dalton
  Nic Dalton is an Australian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for American band The Lemonheads at the height of their popularity...
  
  – electric mandolin
• Amanda Brown – violin
• Rowan Smith – violin
• Sophie Glasson – cello

Production

• Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
• Dan Clinch – additional engineering
• Anthony The – additional engineering
• Veit Mahler – additional engineering

Charts

Charts (2006)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	14
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	71

Recording and mixing

Vision Valley was recorded at Electric Avenue, Velvet Sound, Big Jesus Burger and NikiNali studios, Sydney, Australia. It was mixed at Velvet Sound and Electric Avenue and it was assisted by Veit Mahler, Jason Lea. At Velvet Sound, it was assisted by Dan Clinch and Anthony The and also at BJB, by Peter Farley and Jodie Wallance.

Vision Valley was mastered by Don Bartley at Studio 301 in Sydney, Australia.

External links

• Dreamin the Insane Fan club
• TheVines.org Fan website
• Video podcast Podcast of the band talking about Vision Valley (with samples of "Anysound", "Nothin's Comin", "Vision Valley", "Don't Listen to the Radio", "Gross Out", "Going Gone", "Futuretarded" & "Spaceship".) Originally released on March 9, 2006. Please note that to watch the podcast you need to use a program called StuffIt
  StuffIt
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  to expand the file.